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The Camp of Reason: Spinoza's Ethics as Affirmative Excess. [PDF]

Nurs Philos
Smith JB.
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The Alignment Risks of AI Overconfidence about Consciousness

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many contemporary AI systems (as of May 2025) have expressed extreme confidence in current and near‐future AI lacking consciousness and moral patiency. This article argues that artificially reinforcing such confidence, even if pragmatically useful, poses a novel alignment risk: as coherence‐seeking AIs become more epistemically principled ...
Sharon Berry
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‘Pre‐Technologies’ and the Lifeworld: Assistive Technologies as ‘Pre‐Technologies’ for Self‐Formation as Freedom

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article identifies assistive technologies (ATs) as ‘pre‐technologies’ mediating access to other technologies for disabled subjects (DSs). The motivation is to show that without ATs, DSs cannot be said to have the same level of access to freedom and self‐forming activities as able‐bodied subjects.
Sarel Marais
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The Healing Hermeneutics of Carnal Caring in Neonatal Intensive Care Units. [PDF]

Nurs Philos
Wepener C, Wepener C, Gerber B.
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The We‐Relationship as a Key to Addressing Dementia‐Related Ambiguous Loss

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pauline Boss describes the challenges faced by people caring for family members with dementia in terms of ambiguous loss – a condition in which the physical presence of the person with dementia coexists with their psychological absence. This article proposes the concept of we‐relationship as a key to addressing dementia‐related ambiguous loss.
Takuya Niikawa, Xue Li
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Who Am I When You're a Bot? Relational Identity and AI Companions

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Self‐conceptions provide a framework through which we can make sense of ourselves, interpret and navigate the world, plan our lives, and relate to others. Relational influences can greatly shape them, for instance, when others react to us or offer advice. What if this ‘other’ is not a human being, but an AI?
Muriel Leuenberger
wiley   +1 more source

Defining Moral Injury: A Natural Scaffold. [PDF]

J Relig Health
Smith DGS.
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Lactation, Childrearing, and Gender Justice

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, I discuss the significance of early infant feeding choices for the goal of gender justice. Focusing on human lactation practices, I identify Exclusive Gestational Nursing (EGN) as the norm in advanced industrial societies, which creates the expectation and permission for gestators, and only gestators, to nurse children, and ...
Jenny Brown
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Giving Up

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Philosophical accounts of long‐term goals focus predominantly on the rationality of perseverance, examining when agents should persist despite evidence of failure. Arguably, these accounts consider that giving up is devoid of value. Conversely, this article argues that giving up has a different epistemic function: generating information about ...
Mario I. Juarez‐Garcia
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Building science and subjectivity from flesh. Towards a reconceptualization of neurophenomenology as a contribution to interdisciplinary health research. [PDF]

Med Health Care Philos
Wiltsche HA, Zeiler K.
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